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Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
Drama

Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello

Spectacles of Strangeness
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003
Drama

Spectacles of Strangeness

Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Drama, 18th Century, 19th Century, Romanticism

Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama

Milton in the Long Restoration
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2016

Milton in the Long Restoration

Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton
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Cambridge University Press, 2012
Drama, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition
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1988

Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition

Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
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2017

Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times

Performance and Cultural Politics
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1996

Performance and Cultural Politics

Pinter's Comic Play
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1986

Pinter's Comic Play

Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater
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1997

Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
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2010

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

What Is the Grass? Walt Whitman in My Life
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
Poetry

What Is the Grass? Walt Whitman in My Life

Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
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Harper, 2008
Poetry

Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

Dog Years: A Memoir
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Harper Collins, 2007
Nonfiction, Memoir

Dog Years: A Memoir

Atlantis
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Harper Perennial, 1995
Poetry

Atlantis

My Alexandria
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University of Illinois Press, 1993
Poetry

My Alexandria

Keywords for African American Studies
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NYU Press, 2018
African/African American Lit and History

Keywords for African American Studies

Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
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University of Minnesota Press, 2012
African/African American Lit and History

Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

Christopher Marlowe in Context
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Cambridge University Press, 2013
Drama

Christopher Marlowe in Context

Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
American Literature, Fiction, 20th Century, Novels, 19th Century, Poetry, Short Stories, Print Culture

Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, The kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
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University of Washington Press, 2014
American Literature, 20th Century, Film, Native American Studies

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, The kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of...

Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920
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University of Chicago Press, 2005
American Literature, 20th Century, 19th Century

Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920

Fiction Without Humanity Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019
18th Century

Fiction Without Humanity Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture

The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory
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Oxford Press, 2009
18th Century, Postcolonial Theory

The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory

Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
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John Hopkins University Press, 2006
18th Century

Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema, 2nd ed.
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Columbia University Press, 1996
Cultural Studies, Feminist Film Theory, Film Theory, Women Directors

To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema, 2nd ed.

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Poststructuralism and Beyond
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Routledge, 1992
Cultural Studies, Feminist Film Theory, Film Theory, Women Directors

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Poststructuralism and Beyond

Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton
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Cambridge University Press, 2012
Drama, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

The Book of Books
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

The Book of Books

The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage
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Cambridge University Press, 2018
Drama, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage

Historical Milton
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University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

Historical Milton

The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
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Stanford University Press, 2017

The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday

Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Longman, 2008

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Historical Austen
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

The Historical Austen

The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism

Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989 

Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career

Psychoanalysis, Language, and the Body of the Text
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U Press of Florida, 1996
20th Century, Literary Theory, 18th Century, 19th Century, African/African American Lit and History, Psychoalalysis

Psychoanalysis, Language, and the Body of the Text

Graphic Criticism : Semantics, Neurology and Cultural Transmission-A Study of 100 Classic Anglophone Novels
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Peter Lang, 2022
20th Century, Literary Theory, 18th Century, 19th Century, African/African American Lit and History, Psychoalalysis

Graphic Criticism : Semantics, Neurology and Cultural Transmission-A Study of 100 Classic...

Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man
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Oxford University Press, 2013
American Literature, 20th Century, Literary Theory

Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man

Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
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The University of North Carolina Press, 2012; paperback 2022
American Literature, 18th Century, 19th Century

Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism
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2009

The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism

The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era
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2006

The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era

Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023

Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000

Illness as Narrative
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012
20th Century, Criticism, Medical Humanities

Illness as Narrative

Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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University of Notre Dame Press, 2006
Cultural Studies, Criticism, Literary Theory, Poetry, Medieval, Women's and Gender Studies

Ruling Women: Queenship and Gender in Anglo-Saxon Literature

The Savage Detectives Reread
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Columbia University Press, 2022

The Savage Detectives Reread

Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel
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Princeton University Press, 2012

Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel

Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño
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Oxford, 2018
American Literature, Fiction, 20th Century, Novels, 19th Century

Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

Further Reading
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Oxford University Press, 2020
Nonfiction, 19th Century

Further Reading

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
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Basic Books, 2019
Nonfiction, Creative Non-fiction

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
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Princeton University Press, 2012
Nonfiction, Novels, 19th Century

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
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Yale University Press, 2011
Creative Non-fiction

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture
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Ashgate Press, 2005
Nonfiction

Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture

The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel
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Cambridge University Press, 2000
Nonfiction, 18th Century, 19th Century

The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel

Henry IV, Parts I & II, A Longman Cultural Edition
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Longman, 2007
Drama, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

Henry IV, Parts I & II, A Longman Cultural Edition

Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare
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University of California Press, 1985
Drama, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern

Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare

How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Duke University Press, 2024

How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
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NYU Press, 2014
American Literature, Cultural Studies, Criticism, 19th Century

Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
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NYU Press, 2007
American Literature, Cultural Studies, Criticism, 19th Century, Sexuality Studies, Affect Theory

Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture
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Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture

Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress
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Ohio State University Press, 2017
World Literature, Postcolonialism

Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress

Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights
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2015

Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights

Taking Liberties with the Author
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2013

Taking Liberties with the Author

The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange
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2008

The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
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2003

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

Habits of the Creative Mind, 3rd Edition
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MacMillan, 2024

Habits of the Creative Mind, 3rd Edition

Habits of the Creative Mind, 2nd Edition
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MacMillan/2020

Habits of the Creative Mind, 2nd Edition

On the End of Privacy: Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Literacy, Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, Creative Non-fiction, Cultural Studies

On the End of Privacy: Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World

Habits of the Creative Mind
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Macmillan, 2015
Pedagogy, Creative Non-fiction, Essays

Habits of the Creative Mind

Writing at the End of the World
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005
Pedagogy, Cultural Studies

Writing at the End of the World

As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education
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Cornell University Press, 1998
Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Institutional History

As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education

Dangerous Household Items
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Copper Canyon Press, 2018
Poetry

Dangerous Household Items

You, Too, Could Write a Poem
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Penguin Random House, 2017
Poetry

You, Too, Could Write a Poem

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
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Penguin Random House, 2015
Poetry

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
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Penguin Random House, 2015
Poetry

The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
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Harper Perennial, 2011
Poetry

Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry

Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
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Columbia University Press, 2023

Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean

Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing
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2017

Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing

Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition Cambridge
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1994

Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition Cambridge

John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture and Lancastrian England, co-edited with James Simpson
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2006

John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture and Lancastrian England, co-edited with James Simpson

suddenly we
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Wesleyan University Press, 2023
Poetry

suddenly we

semiautomatic
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Wesleyan University Press, 2017
Poetry

semiautomatic

the new black
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Wesleyan University Press, 2011
Poetry

the new black

Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
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University Of Iowa Press, 2011
American History Literature

Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry

a half-red sea
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Carolina Wren Press, 2006
Poetry

a half-red sea

The Gorgon Goddess
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Carolina Wren Press, 2001
Poetry

The Gorgon Goddess

The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources
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Oxford University Press, 2007
Cultural Studies, 19th Century

The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources

Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition
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Princeton University Press, 2005
Cultural Studies, Criticism, 19th Century

Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition

Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis
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Stanford University Press, 2022
Cultural Studies, Criticism, 19th Century

Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis

Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After
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Oxford University Press, 2020

Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After

Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art
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Princeton University Press, 2000
Cultural Studies, Criticism, 18th Century, 19th Century

Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art

The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought
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2015

The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought

The New Humanities Reader, 3rd Edition
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2009

The New Humanities Reader, 3rd Edition

Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century
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2003

Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century

Common Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the Teaching of Composition
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1992

Common Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the Teaching of Composition

Archipelagic American Studies
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Duke University Press, 2017
American Literature, Cultural Studies, 20th Century, Criticism, Literary Theory, World Literature, Postcolonialism, Native American Studies, African/African American Lit and History, Pacific Literature and Culture, Caribbean Literature and Culture , Asian American Studies

Archipelagic American Studies

Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and the Black Male Performer
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Duke University Press, 2014
American Literature, Cultural Studies, 20th Century, Postcolonialism, African/African American Lit and History

Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and the Black Male Performer

Black Empire
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Duke University Press, 2005
American Literature, Cultural Studies, 20th Century, World Literature, Postcolonialism, African/African American Lit and History, Caribbean Literature and Culture , African Diaspora Literature and Culture

Black Empire

The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England
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University of Chicago Press, 2016
Drama, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Philosophy, Renaissance, Early Modern, Economics, Literature, Political Thought

The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England

Early Modern Theatricality
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Oxford, 2013 
Drama, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Renaissance, Early Modern

Early Modern Theatricality

Shakespeare's Double Helix
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Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008
Drama, Cultural Studies, Renaissance, Early Modern

Shakespeare's Double Helix

The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics and the Practical Spatial Arts
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Oxford University Press, 2006
Drama, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Renaissance, Early Modern, History of Science

The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics and the Practical Spatial Arts

The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England
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Routledge, 2002
Drama, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Renaissance, Early Modern, Economics, Literature

The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England

Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
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Columbia University Press, 2015
Fiction, 20th Century, Criticism, Literary Theory, World Literature, Novels

Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature

A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
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Columbia University Press, 2016
20th Century, Criticism, Literary Theory, World Literature, Postcolonialism

A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization
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2007

Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization

Bad Modernisms
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Duke University Press, 2006
20th Century, Criticism, Literary Theory

Bad Modernisms

Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation
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Columbia University Press, 2006; paperback, 2007
Fiction, 20th Century, Criticism, Literary Theory, Novels, Postcolonialism

Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation

The Turn to Ethics
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Routledge, 2000
Criticism, Literary Theory

The Turn to Ethics

King’s Vibrato
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Duke University Press, 2022
Cultural Studies, 20th Century, 19th Century, African/African American Lit and History

King’s Vibrato

Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
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2012
Cultural Studies, 19th Century, African/African American Lit and History

Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

Constructing the Black Masculine
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2002
Cultural Studies, 20th Century, 19th Century, African/African American Lit and History

Constructing the Black Masculine

New World Maker
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Northwestern University Press, 2022
Cultural Studies, 20th Century, 19th Century, African/African American Lit and History

New World Maker

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
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Cambridge University Press, 2018
19th Century

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama

Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody
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Columbia University Press, 2010
Drama, 19th Century, Feminism/Women's and Gender Studies

Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody

Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire
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ELT Press, 2002
19th Century

Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire

Victorian Literature and Culture, 27.2 (1999) "Editors' Topic: Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies"
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1999
Cultural Studies, 19th Century

Victorian Literature and Culture, 27.2 (1999) "Editors' Topic: Victorian Studies and Cultural...

Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism
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Cornell University Press, 1989
19th Century

Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

The Aesthetic Commonplace
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Oxford University Press, 2022
Literary Theory, Novels, 18th Century, 19th Century, Romanticism, Poetry

The Aesthetic Commonplace

Romantic Intimacy
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Stanford University Press, 2013
Literary Theory, Novels, 18th Century, 19th Century, Romanticism, Poetry

Romantic Intimacy

Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy from Enlightenment Philosophy to Romantic Literature
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Cornell University Press, 2004
Literary Theory, Philosophy, 18th Century, 19th Century, Romanticism

Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy from Enlightenment Philosophy to Romantic Literature

Practical Form Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
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Yale University Press, 2020

Practical Form Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics